Clothes-drier.



G. E. WILLIAMS & M. W. WALKER.

CLOTHES DRIER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5, 1912.

Patented N0v-.24, 1914.

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GEORGE E. WILLIAMS, OF N'YACK, AND M'ARTINW. WALKER, 0E OSSINING,

. NEW YO K.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specification of Letters 1atent.

Application filed June 5, 1912. Serial No. 701,875.

To allwhomc't may concern 3 Be it known that we, GEORGE E. WIL- LIAMS, of Nyack, Rockland county, New York, and MARTIN W. WALKER, of Ossimng, Westchester county, ed a new and useful Improvement in Clothes Driers, of. which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to improvements 1n clothes driers, and especially to that variety of driers which can be attached to the wall of a building, or similar support, and on which a quantity of clothes .may be hung and easily placed on and taken off the support.

Our invention is intended to provide a cheap and eflicient clothes drier which can be very easily put in place, and which will conveniently carry a large quantity of clothes so that they can be well dried.

Our invention comprises a projecting staff, and a series of hangers which can be pushed on the staff, and each of which is adapted to carry clothing to be dried. In connection with this arrangement, we use a locking device in the form of a key which prevents the hangers from being displaced, but which can be easily removed so as to permit the removal of the hangers and clothes thereon when desired.

Reference is to be had to the accompany ing drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the clothes drier embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a detail plan of a section ofthe supporting staff on which the key or'lock is arranged. Fig. 3 is a detail of a preferred form of hanger, and Fig. 4 is a broken detail of a modified form of the hanger.

In carrying out our invention we use a stiff staff 10 which can be applied in any suitable way to a support 11, which can be the wall of a building within reach of a convenient support. At its outer end the stafi 10 is preferably provided with a collar 12, and extending from the outer end to a point above the base of the staff is a guy rod 13 which makes the stafi suiiiciently strong. The stafl near the base is preferably thin, as shown at 14, so

New York, have invent-- necessary amount of clothing or that the hangers presently referred to can be readily placed on the staff andthen pushed out, and afterward locked by placing a key in the thin portion 11 of the staff. a

A convenient and preferred form of the hanger is shownin Fig. 3. v This can be made of stiff wire, and is preferably formed into laterally extending and the wire is bent across at the center of thehanger as shown at 16, to give increased rigidity, and. the doubled wire formed into a hook I? which is adapted to hang and slide freely. on the staff 10. y This hanger can'be made of any desired length so as to carry the articles to be dried, and these articles can be pinned or otherwise secured to the members of the wings or loops 15. stretched from the end of one loop or wing to the end of the other, as shown by dotted lines at 15 in Fig. l, and the clothes or other articles pinned to this as well.

A series of these hangers is used, and the clothes are first secured to the hanger, after which the hook ,17 is slipped on over the thin part 14 of the staff .10 and pushed out on the staff. The hook 17 is sufliciently contracted to prevent it from being taken ofl the stall" except at the thin part, so that thereis no danger of the clothes falling, and after the desired number of hangers and clothes are pushed out on the staff, a lock 18, which can be in theform of a simple hook, is placed in the thin part ll of the staff, so as to prevent a hanger from being by any means pushed back into the thin part and so becoming disengaged. This lock 18 can be of and of any approved the gap caused by the at 14.

l/Vhile We claim the form of hanger shown, we wish it distinctly understood that the hanger can be made in many forms without departing tion. For instance, at the right hand in Fig. 1, we have shown a simple hanger having a hook 19 of fiat material carrying a single rod or wire 20 to which the clothes can be secured if desired. In Fig. 4 we have shown another modification in which a single laterally extending wire 21 is formed into a hook 22, subthinning of the staff wings in loop. form 15,

any desired material,

form to simply fill If desired, a cord can be from the principle of the inven- 1 stantially like the hook 18 already referred to, and'the clothes may be hung on the member 21.

From the description of the hanger it Will be readily seen that it can be made in very many forms Without in the least affecting the principle to the invention, but the form shown in Fig. 3 is preferred, as this is simple, carries a large amount of clothes, and can be rendered capable of carrying more by stretching the cord l5 across it as shown.

It will be seen that this device is very simple and inexpensive, that it can be conveniently applied to any supporting Wall or structure, that the clothes can be readily placed on or taken off the stafi, and that the lock shown prevents any accidental removal. lVhen the hangers are to be removed, the lock 18 is taken ofi the staff, and

the hangers are pulled in one by one and removed from the staff with the clothes thereon. Any convenient hook can be used Copies of this patent may be for reaching out to engage the hangers and pull them in Where they can be reached by the hand.

We claim:

A clothes drier comprising a horizontally extending stafi supported at its ends and with a short section near one end thinned, the remainder of the staff being left plain, a series of transversely arranged detachable hangers to run on the shaft, each hanger having a hook Wide enough to pass over the thin section of the stafi' but too narrow to release itself from the plain section of the staiii, and a detachable hook serving as a lock and adapted to essentially fill the thin section of the staff to prevent the disengagenient of the hanger hooks.

GEORGE E. WILLIAIVIS. MARTIN 'W. -WALKER.

Witnesses i Y EDWARD HALLGRING,

VVARREN B. HUTGHINSON.

obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

